Joe Trippi on Trump vs. Biden: The State of the Race

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🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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What is the state of the presidential race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden? How might decisions such as Biden’s vice-presidential pick and campaign events like the conventions change—or not change—the race? What possible moves might we expect from the Trump and Biden campaigns as we head toward the fall? In this Conversation with Bill Kristol, veteran Democratic strategist Joe Trippi shares his perspective. When Trippi appeared on Conversations in March of 2019, he predicted (against conventional wisdom!) that Biden would prevail in the Democratic nominating contest. Now, while highlighting challenges and potential unknowns in the race, Trippi argues that the dynamic that helped Biden in the primaries—the view that Biden can make government work and tamp down civil tensions—likely will help him in November, as well.

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0:00.0	And the Welcome back to Conversations. I'm Bill Crystal. Very pleased to be joined remotely
0:19.6	but still joined today by my friend Joe Trippy, a long-time Democratic
0:24.3	strategist worked on a really managed and ran and was the chief
0:29.2	strategist for a variety of campaigns ranging from Howard Dean's very impressive.
0:34.0	Long shot presidential bit in 2004 which fell short but was still transformative I think it's fair
0:38.6	to say of our the way we do politics and of the perhaps of of the Democratic Party, to Jerry Brown's race in 2010 in California.
0:46.7	Doug Jones, last year in Alabama, a very impressive upset victory.
0:51.8	So Joe's worked all around the country at every
0:54.2	level of democratic politics and and more importantly has been on these
0:58.7	conversations has been on this conversation before we had one in late March of 2019 and Joe predicted against the
1:05.7	conventional wisdom that Joe Biden would be the Democratic nominee and beat
1:10.8	back all these more fashionable challenges at the time.
1:13.5	So welcome Joe and congratulations on being right.
1:17.0	Great to be with you, Bill.
1:19.0	Well, even a broke clock is right twice a day but that was just something that I saw and still believe
1:28.8	was should have been clear to a lot of people but but conventional wisdom can just be really wrong sometimes it was
1:35.8	so talk about that for a minute I mean what what did we learn over the last year
1:40.8	in terms of Biden's winning the primary and actually so far having
1:45.5	clinched the nomination and having done well in the match-ups with Donald Trump.
1:49.6	What lesson do you take from that?
1:50.8	Well I just I've thought from the very beginning that what people
1:56.6	were focused on was the contrast with Trump and that Trump is driving
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